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• Samantha Ryan
• Ivar Gerardus Cornelis van Niftrik, Leuth
• Breauna Sierra MCCALLISTER, Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Rick Borst, Spijkenisse, Nederland († 2006)
• Austin Christopher Knapp, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa († 1991)

• Cornelia Verwaal (84), Streefkerk
• Adriana Hendrika Mies (84), Wouw
• Antonie Adrianus Mulders (66), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Anna Maria A. (Anneke) Proosten (71), Sittard, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Maria Bax (81), Tilburg
• Cornelia Zethof (88)
• Alice Louise Friedman (87), Spokane, Spokane Co., Washington, US
• Antonie Adrianus Hendrikus Mulders (66), Edmonton Alberta Canada
• Alice Rozella Carson **** (85), Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Alexander Wallace Feilding (72), Parijs, Ile-de-France, Frankrijk

• 1987 » Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
• 1987 » Nico Hülkenberg, German race car driver
• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
• 1990 » Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
• 1994 » Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1994 » Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete

• 1980 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1982 » August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Kevin
5. Patrick
6. Michael
7. Dennis
8. Martijn
9. Mark
10. Tim
11. Cornelis
12. Rick
13. Niels
14. Robin
15. Robert
16. Tom

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anne
4. Joyce
5. Maria
6. Anna
7. Jessica
8. Michelle
9. Amy
10. Stephanie
11. Kim
12. Nicole
13. Melissa
14. Sarah
15. Esther
16. Johanna

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
• January 9 » Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
• March 31 » Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
• May 26 » Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
• September 17 » Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• October 4 » The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• December 25 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

The temperature on August 19, 1991 was between 8.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.